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TIL From 1898 to 2006 Americans paid a 3% tax on all long distance telephone calls in order to pay for the Spanish American War.

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Z9Ea TIL “wet dog” smell is produced when fats in sweat are broken down into volatile organic acids by bacteria and yeasts; when the dog is wet, the acids dissolve in the water, and evaporate in higher concentration–high enough for humans to smell
9wN4B TIL the orbits of the planets are coplanar because during the Solar System's formation, the planets formed out of a disk of dust which surrounded the Sun. Because that disk of dust was a disk, all in a plane, all of the planets formed in a plane as well.
awpRZ TIL that Christopher Columbus is considered to be the one that brought syphilis to Europe from the Americas in 1493
9VjB TIL that Don Mclean’s kids sang the Weird Al Yankovic parody (‘The Saga Begins’) of his classic 'American Pie’ so much that he sometimes sings it accidentally in concert.
ReO4 TIL that during production of the film “Snakes on a Plane” the name was changed to “Pacific Air Flight 121”. Samuel L. Jackson, the lead character, successfully requested the title be changed back, saying, “That’s the only reason I took the job: I read the title.”